TANGIER INTERZONE

/ Passport Interzone II /

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  Projections and debate:

  - Genet à Tanger, Guillaume de Sardes, France, 2017, 11 mn. VOSE.

  At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where he spends entire days reading, smoking and sleeping. Sometimes meets the young Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri there. Their discussion is banal, friendly. Sometimes they talk about literature. Genet no longer writes, but is still inhabited by it.

  - Tingis, Micropunta, Italy, 2008, 33 min, VOSE.

  "Tangier attracts you...And you are attracted to it,as if it grabbed you to remain inside you". "I am born in Tangier and I never go from Tangier. So I do n’t like to go from Tangier. I want to stay in Tangier".

  - In Limbo, Abdelaziz Taleb, Morocco-Germany, 2022,17 min. VOSE.

  Un poema cinematogràfic rodat aleatòriament en diferents llocs del Marroc. Un diari íntim d'una època.
  Un conjunt de detalls estranys i bells, en constant diàleg amb poemes en veu en off, moviment de persones, animals, imatges de la ciutat i del camp, que creguin una atmosfera onírica en la qual el més petit detall importa. La seducció d'«Alguna cosa» que potser ja no tenim.

   - Perro Corazón, Abu Ali *) Toni Serra, 1998, Morocco, 29 min, VOSE.

  1998, Tangier. Conversations in the bar La Poste with Tangerian writer Mohammed Chukri and New York poet Ira Cohen, stories of death, separation and loss under the mantle of friendship.

  - Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open, Daniel Young, 2012, Switzerland, 86 min, VOSE

  Even though his musical and literary oeuvre is neither large nor very well known apart from his bestseller-novel «The Sheltering Sky», the American composer and author Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was a man of immense charisma and influence.
  When he moved to Tangier (Morocco) in 1949, it was a city divided into zones, a sanctuary for artists, writers and the wealthy to do as they pleased without fear of prosecution.

  Based on an exclusive series of interviews with Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators, the film tells of a daring and visionary life and a relationship shaped by a codependency that went way beyond sexuality.
  Among the participants are Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Waters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others.